I organised the Greater (George) Washington Topology Seminar for the year 2020-2021. The passcode to view the recordings of previous talks is gwts@725 .
Speaker Date Title of the Talk Recording Louis H. Kauffman 2nd October, 2020 Trivalent Graphs and Virtual Links Link Charles Frohman 9th October, 2020 Coordinatizing isotopy classes of webs in surfaces Link Thang T. Q. Lê 16th October, 2020 Quantum trace map for SLn skein algebras of surfaces Link Pierrick Bousseau 23rd October, 2020 The skein algebra of the 4-punctured sphere from curve counting Link | Slides Micah Chrisman 30th October, 2020 The virtual knot concordance group is not abelian Link Alex Chandler 6th November, 2020 Torsion in Thin Regions of Khovanov Homology Link Boštjan Gabrovšek 13th November, 2020 Bonded knots Link Razvan Gelca 20th November, 2020 Searching for Patterns in Skein Modules Link Helen Wong 11th December, 2020 The Roger-Yang Skein Algebra for Punctured Surfaces Link Mikhail Khovanov 5th February, 2021 Introduction to the Universal Construction Link Maciej Mroczkowski 5th March, 2021 Knots with cyclotomic Jones polynomials Link Victoria Lebed 12th March, 2021 Unexpected applications of homotopical algebra to knot theory Link Dirk Schütz 26th March, 2021 A Scanning Algorithm for Odd Khovanov Homology Link Peter Samuelson 2nd April, 2021 The Kauffman skein algebra of the torus Link Krzysztof Putyra 9th April, 2021 Unifying colored sl(2) link homology Link | Slides Michał Jabłonowski 16th April, 2021 Triple-crossing diagrams of knots Link Nathan Geer 23rd April, 2021 Re-normalized Quantum Link Invariants Joseph Boninger 30th April, 2021 A Quantum invariant of Links in the Thickened Torus with Volume Conjecture Behavior Link William Goldman 7th May, 2021 Dynamics on character varieties and geometric structures Link | Slides Wade Bloomquist 14th May, 2021 Stated Skein Modules of Marked 3-Manifolds Link | Slides